Re: question about crypto module dependency

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On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:26:30PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Herbert Xu
>> <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:10:48AM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> >>
>> >> How things are supposed to work when :
>> >>
>> >>   - crc32c module is not loaded
>> >>   - libcrc32c module is not loaded
>> >>   - btrfs is not loaded
>> >>
>> >> and I issue: "modprobe btrfs" ?
>> >
>> > When libcrc32c is loaded it'll automatically load crc32c through
>> > the Crypto API.
>> >
>>
>> Did you try ?
>
> Yes it works on my machine.
>

Ok, It's acutally the user space tools which are confused: they don't
have a way to track the dependency therefore crc32c is not included in
my initrd.

I'm wondering how this could be fixed... I could hard code the
dependency in userspace but it looks like an ugly workaround.

Thanks
-- 
Francis
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